[Nagiosplug-devel] check_ping duplicates bug
Christian G. Warden
cwarden at xerus.org
Tue Jul 19 22:30:02 CEST 2005
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:37:15AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Christian G. Warden wrote:
> >There's a bug in check_ping in which it incorrectly reports the number
> >of duplicate packets received as the packet loss. A patch is attached
> >which correctly parses the last line of the ping output. It should work
> >for netkit-ping and iputils-ping.
> This patch will almost certainly cause an identical bug on some other
> distribution or platform or whatnot. Try check_icmp instead. Since it
> does its own low-level work it doesn't have this kind of bug (which is
> the most common type for the check_ping plugin).
Thanks, Andreas. I wasn't aware of check_icmp.
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